Agitated Activation, Anxiety, and Elevated Mood
Agitated Activation, Anxiety, and Elevated Mood The likelihood that patients with hypomania will present for clinical care in the depressed state has been discussed in Chapter 4. This section now…
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Roughening— When Treatment Fails
Roughening— When Treatment Fails Once patients with elevated mood are stabilized with psychotherapy, psychoeducation, lifestyle management, and medication, they may remain stable for an extended period. It is not uncommon,…
Mixed Episodes and Rapid Cycling
Mixed Episodes and Rapid Cycling The identification of mixed affective states is one of the most critical items related to hypomania that has only recently begun receiving attention. Mixed affective…
Treatment of Elevated Mood With Medication
Treatment of Elevated Mood With Medication General issues As described elsewhere (1), prescribing mental health medication is unlike prescribing other types of medication, for example, antihypertensives or antibiotics. Both patient…
Treating Elevated Mood Without Medication
Treating Elevated Mood Without Medication Treating elevated mood and upside symptomatology with medication is commonplace and is expected in most treatment settings. However, this does not negate the therapeutic advantages…
Treating Elevated Mood— Principles and the Challenges
Treating Elevated Mood— Principles and the Challenges The first several chapters of this text describe the evolution in understanding hypomania and elevated mood starting from a purely phenomenologic perspective and…
Upside Down— Depression and Hypomania
Upside Down— Depression and Hypomania Although the focus of this book is elevated mood, any discussion of hypomania must include its interface with depression. Whether the appearance of depressed symptoms…
Diagnostic Issues in Hypomania
Diagnostic Issues in Hypomania As described in the previous two chapters, the detection of hypomania and elevated mood is crucial to appropriate diagnosis and management. Whether the chief complaint is…
The GEnES Fingerprint—The Future
The GEnES Fingerprint—The Future A framework to organize mental health data For over a century, psychiatry has primarily utilized phenomenology—those occurrences and behaviors that are reported or are observed—as the…
The Evolution of Elevated Mood
The Evolution of Elevated Mood “… In the early stages, I feel good about the world and everybody in it … I like it. All of a sudden I have…
